How to Use hardening in a Sentence

hardening

noun
  • The hardening of hearts is here the loss of the power of speech.
    — Titus Techera, National Review, 29 July 2017
  • How much will new hardening measures cost?
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The hardening of the building can happen with more than just glass.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2021
  • This can lead to hardening or clogging of the arteries over time.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart gave Pharaoh equal choice.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The joints can be created by forms or cut into the hardening concrete.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That rain, and the subsequent hardening of the soil on sunny days, has stunted his corn crop.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2019
  • The hardening happens slowly, over many drafts.
    — Emma Straub october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Alana Castaneda can feel her scar tissue hardening, pulling her jaw to the left.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But the hardening on each side is what may give others anxiety about the state of the union afterward.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The report also revealed a mild hardening of the vessels that supplied blood to her heart and body.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Then came a pandemic, leading to the hardening of the border.
    — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • But with so little time to react, hardening networks ahead of time is more practical.
    — Naureen S Malik, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Of course, even the most thorough hardening can’t one-hundred percent guarantee that a home won’t burn.
    — Josh Schlossberg, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024
  • To strengthen nails, mince garlic and add it to a bottle of clear nail polish, then use it as a hardening treatment and base coat.
    — Alexandra Tunell, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2014
  • Warren’s actions fuelled a further hardening of the far right of the Church.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • But the week’s events, and untold suffering on both sides, risk hardening divisions over how such lessons should be framed.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This year’s line-hardening—by my count, some twenty-three per cent of cases—is both remarkable and troubling.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
  • Home hardening includes structural changes such as replacing wood shingle roofs with roofing that is less flammable, such as tile.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • From our view onto the enormous construction site, this hardening mostly seemed to take the form of an awful lot of concrete.
    — Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
  • Greening starts at the leaves and works its way through the tree like a hardening of the arteries, blocking nutrients and water.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • California has begun a grant program to help with home hardening, as it's known, in a handful of counties.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Poor hydration can lead to the hardening of stool instead of providing relief.
    — Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The hardening of the border has an effect on the ability of smuggling cartels to exploit it and to sell their services.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The hardening of Britain’s immigration debate came to a head this summer.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • When those results came back negative, the office ruled that Khan died of hardening of the arteries.
    — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2017
  • His response to the Palisades and Eaton fires is to expand brush clearance efforts and home hardening.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 27 May 2026
  • Since antlers form from the bases and grow up and out, the area around the pedicle and the main beam itself hardens first, followed by hardening of the tines, from the base to the tip.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The days since have only seen a hardening of lines between Washington and Beijing.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Nicaraguans have been fleeing in record numbers, driven by poor economic conditions and the hardening of the police state.
    — Trish Wilson, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023

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